Church of St Edmund
CHURCH OF ST EDMUND, B6278
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229331
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND, B6278
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229331
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND, B6278
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND, B6278
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Edmondbyers
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 01441 49917
Details
EDMONDBYERS 86278 ,Edmondbyers NZ 04 NW (West side, off) 6/47 Church of St. Edmund 31.1.67 GV II
Parish church; C12 and later, restored c.1859. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; east wall thin courses of squared stone; quoins. Stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. 4-bay nave with south porch; 3-bay chancel with north organ chamber and vestry. Porch has double boarded doors in chamfered round- headed surround under gable with mask corbels supporting coping with ring-cross finial. Inner doors diagonally-boarded with elaborate iron hinges. C19 round- headed nave windows with drip moulds, in panels with corbel tables. West roundel in round-headed panel. Slightly lower set-back chancel has 3 round-headed windows, one C19, of varying heights, the medieval ones narrow and chamfered; 2 short buttresses. Similar east buttresses flank C19 round-headed window with nook shafts under billet drip mould. Roof has flat gable copings on mask corbels; angelus and east stone cross finials; west gabled bellcote. Interior: rubble with ashlar dressings; re-used roof of collared trusses with struts on chamfered tie-beams; chancel roof C19 king-post trusses. Restored chancel arch flanked by inserted lower round-headed arches serving as lectern and pulpit. Chamfered aumbry and round-headed piscina in south wall. Glass, faded in east window, including south aisle memorial to William Featherstonhaugh, Rector 1856- 1904, by C.J. Baguley of Newcastle. Acorn and oak-leaf poppyhead bench ends. Wood vestry in west end is C20 construction, as memorial to members of Marjoribanks family, using C17 elements, door from Shepherds Dene House, Riding Mill; priest's pew from Auckland Castle; organ case from All Saints, Clifton; fragments from Durham Castle and Cathedral.
Listing NGR: NZ0144149917
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404164
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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